NASA 2024 NASA Conference— Featured Artists & Ensembles

Thanks to all who joined us Thursday-Sunday, March 14-17, 2024 for the NASA 2024 NASA Conference at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Mei-Fang Lin

Mei-Fang Lin is Associate Professor of Composition at Oklahoma State University where she teaches composition, theory and computer music. Lin's music has received performances and broadcasts internationally in over 30 countries in the world. She has won many international competitions including Prix SCRIME and Bourges Competition in France, Pierre Schaeffer Competition and Luigi Russolo Composition in Italy, Alvarez Chamber Orchestra International Competition in England, Seoul International Competition for Composers in Korea, Music Taipei Composition Competition in Taiwan, Musica Domani International Competition in US as well as many national competitions in US such as the Look & Listen Festival Prize, National Association of Composers, USA Competition, SCI/ASCAP Student Commission Competition, Chicago Ensemble Discover America Competition, American Composers Forum/LA Annual Composer's Competition, Fifth House Ensemble Competition . . . etc. Commissions have come from Chew's Cultural Foundation, Taipei National Concert Hall, New York Intercultural Music Society, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Rootstock Percussion Trio, Amigo Saxophone Quartet, Fourth Phase Zheng Ensemble, Yarn/Wire Ensemble, ChamberBridge Ensemble, Earplay New Music Ensemble, Contemporary Chamber Orchestra Taipei, 21st Century Piano Commission . . . etc.

Lin also keeps an active schedule as a performer. As a pianist, she has played concertos with the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Taipei National Concert Hall Symphony Orchestra and UC Berkeley Summer Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed solo and chamber music with Empyrean Ensemble, Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players, University of Illinois New Music Ensemble, Contemporary Chamber Orchestra Taipei . . . etc. As a conductor, she was a music director of the UC Berkeley Summer Symphony Orchestra, Associate Conductor with the University of Illinois New Music Ensemble, and Assistant Conductor of the UC Berkeley University Symphony Orchestra.

Lin received her master's degree in composition from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Ph.D. in composition from the University of California at Berkeley. With the support of a Frank Huntington Beebe Fund from Boston and a George Ladd Paris Prize from UC Berkeley, Lin lived in France from 2002-2005, studying composition with Philippe Leroux, orchestration with Marc-André Dalbavie, and participating in the one-year intensive computer music course "Cursus de Composition" at IRCAM in Paris. Upon graduation from UC Berkeley, Lin taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as Visiting Assistant Professor of Composition prior to her appointment at Oklahoma State University as Assistant Professor of Composition in 2009.

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